London- U.K’s popular TV channel ITV announced today that it has ordered another season of one of the most loved show, Law & Order: UK. The show stars Bradley Walsh, Dominic Rowan, Paterson Joseph and Georgia Taylor in the lead roles.

The original series was one of the most successful TV brands in the history of US television and finished its 20^th season in the year 2010. ITV said that the show is an ultimate hit amongst the UK audience, since it was initially broadcasted in 2009. Season 7 of the UK series was aired in the beginning 0f 2013 and set a winning record for each of its slot, even beating the period drama on BBC, the White Queen. The last season saw an average viewership of around 5.4 million people, covering 21.3 % of the total UK TV audience at the time of airing. As per ITV, the numbers depicted showed a significant increase over the last year. 

Season 8 will be aired next month on ITV, the shooting for which will begin next month, in London. Bradley Walsh portrays the role of Detective Sergeant – Ronnie Brooks in the UK adaptation and the character of Chief Prosecutor- Jacob Thorne is played by Dominic Rowan. It was only in the last season that Georgia Taylor, of Coronation Street and Peep Show fame, Paterson Joseph, had jined the cast of the ITV hit show. While Taylor is also a prosecutor, Joseph plays the role of a police officer. The popular cast will be joined by Ben Bailey Smith, who plays the role of their new team member, Detective Sergeant – Joe Hawkins in the new season 8.

Season 8 of Law & Order: UK will be produced by Stella & Casualty fame, Jane Dauncey, with executive producers as Jane Featherstone and Alison Jackson for Kudos. The head of drama series of the ITV channel said that the show is one of most popular series among the UK audience and this time they are surely in for a surprise.

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London – The eleventh Season kick-off of BBC’s celebrity dance series, Strictly Come Dancing received higher ratings than the last year and not only that, it also left behind ITV’s Simon Cowell singing talent show, The X Factor, in terms of average viewership. On Saturday night, while an average of 8.4 million viewers watched Strictly, an increase from the 8 million last year, X Factor attracted an audience of 8 million or 8.3 million, after including the viewers of the repeat of the show. X Factor saw a decline from the last week premier show’s viewership, which was an audience of 9.2 million people.

And if we look at the viewership in terms of peak ratings, we have a mixed picture here.

While, for the first five minutes, Strictly saw a peak viewership of 9.4 million, The X Factor was at 9.1 million viewers. It’s after the instantaneous repeat episode, the show on ITV made it to the top. ITV said in a statement “The X Factor drew a peak audience of 9.5 million viewers last night, the highest peak audience of the night”. One week before, the peak viewership was 10.3 billion, and then what went wrong? It’s quite evident that X Factor is losing out on its audience due to Simon not being on the judging panel. Another reason of these slightly lower ratings is Strictly airing before The X Factor.

In 2012, The X Factor season finale saw an average viewership of 10.9 million and 11.1 million after the immediate repeat, which was still a decline from the 13.1 million in 2011 and 17.2 million viewers in the 2010 season finale episode. It was X Factor’s lowest-rated season finale in the UK since the year 2006, besides the known fact is that this ITV’s show created by Simon Cowell is the highest rated and watched television series in British Television.

Strictly, on the other hand, saw an average viewership of 12.4 Million, higher than the previous number of 12.2 million viewers. Moreover, the celebrity dancing series saw stronger average ratings than the singing talent show in several other weeks.

Let’s see which of these shows will build up the maximum viewership in the coming weeks. Which one’s your favorite? Share your views with us. 

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